The image was taken through an infrared camera lens and tweaked using color tables to identify the strongest part of the storm, CNN reported. The hurricane's eye looks like the eye of a skull. Its teeth are cold convective clouds, Paul Meyer, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Earth Science Office told CNN.

"Your brain is constantly trying to make the most out of just the tiniest thing," David Huber, a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, told LiveScience. "You're sort of in overdrive on imagining from limited information that there is a face."